Hoisting and conveying device.



PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908.

I. S. MILLER & J. H. DICKINSON. BOISTING AND CONVEYING DEVICE.

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T. s. MILLER & J. H. mcxmsoz HOISTING AND GONVEYINGDEVIGE.

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THOVAS SPENCER MILLER. OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY; AND JOSEPH H. DICKINSON,

01- ATLANTA, GEORGIA; SAID DICKINSON ASSIGNOR TO THE LIDGERWOOD MANUFAC- ll'l |.\'(j COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HOISTING AND CONVEYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

' Application filed June 12- 1902- Serial No. 111-331.

To ulZ who-m it may concern:

Be it known that we, TnoMas Srnxcun MILLER, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of South Orange, in the county of Essen; and State of New Jersey, and Josneu H. Dlcsixsmv, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a new'and Improved Hoisting and Convey- '10 ing Den'ce, of which the following is a full,

clcar, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in hoisting and conveying devices, and in the drawings accompanying herewith is shown as embodied in a eableway for collecting logs.

Our invention comprisesnovel parts and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the claims.

Figures 1 and 2 are elevations of cablewa rs employing our inventionin two slightly different forms. Fig. 3 is a side elevation,

. Fig. 4 an end elevation and Fig. 5 a horizontal'section of the carriage, shown in Fig. 1. Fig. (i is a plan of the operating parts of the carriage shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a plan of the operating parts of the carriage as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a detail partly in section,

showing a construction suitable for the friction hoisting-drum and the friction slackpulling-l l m m hoisting and conveying devices which employ a traveling load carriage, much dilli cully is experienced in causing the fall when unload d to prom My take up the slack in the loweriug'or fail rope. The weight of'the securing tackle on the end of the fall th- 40 gether with the weight of the rope end and sometimes an additional weight secured thereto, is usually relied upon to pull out the slack amount in our present invention we have provided a slack puller or means for paying out the hoist rope so that a prompt and rapid'paying out of this rope ma he socured.

In' both Figs. 1 and .2, Sand 5' represent, respectively, head and tail supports for a cableway, A thctraeliway cable, ll the h'oist or fall rope, and 'l the traction or carriage hauling rope. The head and tail support-s are provided with suit-able guides for the various ropes. Three friction rope drums D, D and D are shown driven by a suitable engine; 1) having the. traction rope connected therewith; D and D having the rope or ropes connected therewith by which the raising and lowering of the load and the fall rope is secured. Each of these friction ropedrums may be of the construction shown in Fig. Swherein the driven spur-wheel 1 fast upon the shaft 2 carries a V-shaped friction ring 3 entering a corresponding recess in the flange 4 of the rope-drum 5 which is loose upon the shaft 2 and is pressed toward the spur wheel 1 in opposition to the coil spring 6 by the cross key 7.

A band-brake S is applied to the exterior of the flange 4. \Vhen neither the handbrake nor the'friction ring engages the ro a: drum it pays out its rope freely. When t re band-brake is disengaged but the friction ring is engaged, it hauls in its rope. When the friction ring is disengaged and the hand brake is engaged, it holds its rope stationary. When the brake is lightly engaged, the paying out of the rope is under tension. When the friction ring is so lightly engaged as to friction I'(lp(.(l[UiHS D, D andl), the oper- 'ln the operation of cable-waysand other ator althe engine is enabled to operate and control the tluee ropes B, and T in the manner hereinafter described without. ermitling any substantiallyundesirable s ack in any of said ropes.

Upon the trackway cable is atrolley- F from which is suspended. a load carriage E comaining the drum I, which receives the hoist or fall rope H. and the drum or drums loo are fixedlyor consisth .20 The dri Q a 878,482 g integrally connected to ether, and to respectively, are secure the ends of the runs of rope. B and C by which the hoist rope is operated: The drum-part G, which re-' mixes the slack pulling run of rope C, 15 preferably slightly larger than the drum part G which receives the hoist-operating run of IO e B, thus' necessitating less power to over aul therope B than would be required .10 were both drums of substantially the same 7 diameter, thus enabling us to employ a relativel light'siack pulling rope C. V e have shown the fall H as containing only a single run of rope and the drum 1 as of only one part or barrel but we do not wish to limit ourselves in this regard, since it is evident that the runs of fall-rope ma be manifolded to multipldy the power oft e hoist to any extent desire connection between the drums G and I is town as the intermeshing gear wheels J and J so that when one drum turns the other must also, but We do not wish to limitourselves to this form of driving con- .25 nection. The traction rope T, as shown in Fig. 1, is substantially an endless rope coupled to the carriage E;

. Instead of the construction above described, that indicated in Fig. 7 may be so employed. In this form the two drums G G are merged into one drum (3! which 'receives the loop of the single rope composed of the two runs B, C, which communicates its motion to the drum b its frictional grip 55 thereon. The fallrope' rum I is a storage drum of sufiicient capacity to accommodate the maximum length of fall rope which will I be needed. The drum G2 preferably contains an elliptical groove with sufficient 40 wraps of the rope therein to give the rope a sufficient grip on the wheel; though other gri ping means maybe substituted.

t is evident that by opgerating the hoist operating the runs of rope C, or B, C, the

fall rope may be raised or lowered at will and 6,5 We are aware that the Dusedau Patent.

the speed of lowerin is independent of the weight ofthat part 0 the rope then out, or of I the attaclunentis thereto. It will therefore be possible to lower it at a greater rate of SO-uspeed than when! its weight alone relied u on. The use of fall rope carriers may be .a o obviated with all the troubles attendant thereupon.

In moving the carriage along the trackway the hoist operating rope or ropes must he wound in or mid out to correspond with the I u movement oi the carriage if there is to he no hoisting or lowering of the'load. Two drums D and I) are therefore required to operate 80 this rope. The frame E is supplied with different points of attachment ortho sus pendinglink f, as by the holes a so that the suspension point may be shiftgd as necessary to make the ropes pull right. i

No 566,849, dac zfie tembei' 1, 1896, describes two operative y connected drums mounted on the load-carriage and containing a-fall-rope, a run of hoisting ropeand a run of slack-pulling rope, said runs of hoisting re esfand slack-pulling rope constituting di erent parts of the same-endless rope and extending from the load-carriage drum, respectively, in op osite directions to o posite ends of the tree ray and'operated by the same drum at the engine. In our construction, on the-contrary, the tail ends of our slack-pulling ro C or C and hoisting-rope B or are hot 1 at the'carriage where said tail ends are connected together and with the of the ropes to drums eared together as are the drums B and I oi Figs. '6 and 7. Our hoisting and slack-pulling rope runs are in versely wound on the drum or 'drum parts and preferably leave the drum-or drum parts at points respectively below and above the same. In our construction two distinct friction-rope-drurns D" and D are employed for operating the slack-pulling and hoisting 160 ropes, respectivelygso t at bv inhauling on both of said drums in unison t 1e drum mechanism on the load-carriage may be held sta-v tionary as the carriage moves toward the head-support and vice versa, by payin out on the drums D, D in unison, the m mechanism on the load-carriage may he held stationary as the load-carriage travels toward the tailsupport. But when it is desired to operate the drum mechanism on the load-carriage in either direction, it may be done by hauling in on one of the drums D or D while the slipping of the friction of the other drum permits it to pay out under suffic1ent tension to maintain any required tautness of said hoisting and slack-pulling ropes. 1

Although we meter that the rope-drum mechanism.should consist of three distinct rope-drums operativcly connected together, as shown in Fig. (i, and the three ropes B, C and ll should be distinct and separateropes each connected with one of said rope-drums, nevertheless either two of said ropwdrums may be mergml together and either two of said ropes may he nwrgud together; as, for

example, in Fig. 7, where the rope-drums (l, i, of Fig. (i. are nu'lgmi into the rope-drum or sheave (F, and the ropes li and l of Fig. (3 are merged into the continuous I'Qlll' B, U, 1:30

making the combination of the drum G with the ropes B, C the substantial equivalent of the drums G, G and ropes B, C.

. way, we do not limit ourselves thereto since certain of the principles of our invention mightbe embodied in apparatus with the traveling drums mounted upon other forms of cdnveyance.

Having thus fully descxibed ourinvention, we claim as new and desire to sec'ure by Letters Patent r 1. In combination, a stationary drum, a traction rope operated thereby, a traveling drum, a rope operated by said drum for connection with an object to be hauled, two ropes having their tail ends at said drum and tending to operate the same in opposite directions and two stationary drums with which the head ends of said, ropes are connected. I

2. In combination, a traveling drum, a rope operated hysaid drum or connection with an object to be hauled, two stationary drums connected directly withsaid traveling drum by ropes tending to operate said travcling drum in opposite directions, a traction rope and a stationary drum for operating said rope.

3. In a hoist-in and conveying device, the combination wit a trackway, a carriage thereon, and means for traversing the carriage of stall ro e drum and an auxiliary drum supported i iom the-carriage and connected to turn together, said auxiliary drum being divided into two parts of unequal diameter, a hoist rope upon the hoist drum, a hoist operating rope upon the smaller portion of said auxiliary drum, and a slack pulling rope upon the larger portion of the auxiliary drum, said two last mentioned ropes being adapted to turn the drums oppositely; 4. In a conveying ap aratus, in combination, a trackway, a loa -carriage, a traction rope, a drum for operating the same, three connected drum members -on said carriage, a fall-rope, a hoisting-r0 e and a'slack-pullingrope coiled, respective y, on said drum members, substantially as described; whereby the unwinding therefrom of the hoisting-rope produces a winding of the-other two r0 es and vice versa; both said hoisting am slackpulling ropes extendin from the same end of the trackway to sai carriage and having their tail ends at saidearriage.

5. In a conveyin apparatus, in combination, a trackway, aloud-carriage, a traction rope, a drum for operating the same, a drum on said carriage containing a plurality of connected parts, hoisting and slackulling ropes extending, respectively, from t e top and bottom of said drum toward the same end of the trackway and separate power drums whereby said ropes are respectively operated.

6. In combination, two traveling drum parts connected in axial alinement, two stationary drums, a rope connecting each of said stationary drums with one of said traveling drum parts to operate inversely, a rope operated by said traveling drum arts for connection with an object to be hau ed, a traction rope, and a drum for operating 'said traction rope.

7. In a conveying apparatus, in combination, a trackway, a traveling carriage thereon, an outhaul traction rope having-its outer free end connected to the frame of the carriage, a lurality of traveling drum parts connects in axial alinement, two stationary drums, a rope connecting each of said stationary drums with one of said traveling drum parts to operate inversely, and a rope operated by one of said traveling drum arts for connection with an object to be hau ed.

8. In a conveying apparatus, in combination, a. traveling carriage, an outhaul traction rope having its outer free end connected to the frame of. the carriage, a plurality of drum members on said carriage, connections between said drum members, a fall rope, hoisting and slack pulling ropes coiled respectively on said drum members so that the unwinding therefrom of the hoisting rope 

